Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

- Bennett, Jill

Best Quotes about Marriage

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

13.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

35.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.